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Global Justice and International Economic Law

Global Justice and International Economic Law Opportunities and Prospects

Author: Chi Carmody; Frank J. Garcia; John Linarelli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107013285
Published In: March 2012
Format: Hardback , 320 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
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Since the beginnings of the GATT and the Bretton Woods institutions, and on to the creation of the WTO, states have continued to develop institutions and legal infrastructure to promote global interdependence. International lawyers are experts in understanding how these institutions operate in practice, but they tend to uncritically accept comparative advantage as the principal normative criterion to justify these institutions. In contrast, moral and political philosophers have developed accounts of global justice, but these accounts have had relatively little influence on international legal scholarship and on institutional design. This volume reflects the results of a symposium held at Tillar House, the American Society of International Law headquarters in Washington, DC, in November 2008, which brought together philosophers, legal scholars and economists to discuss the problems of understanding international economic law from the standpoints of rights and justice, in particular from the standpoint of distributive justice.

• Presents a multidisciplinary effort of legal scholars, philosophers and economists to develop the normative criteria for justifying the WTO and international economic institutions

• Takes a holistic view in offering research that does not neatly fall into standard disciplinary categories

• Takes seriously the idea of developing criteria that may be applied to institutions in practice

Contributors	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction Chios Carmody, Frank J. Garcia, and John Linarelli	1
Part I. Theorizing justice in international economic institutions
1 Approaching Global Justice through Human Rights: Elements of Theory and Practice Carol C. Gould	27
2 Global Equality of Opportunity as an Institutional Standard of Distributive Justice Daniel Butt	44
3 Human Persons, Human Rights, and the Distributive Structure of Global Justice Robert C. Hockett	68
4 Global Economic Fairness: Internal Principles Aaron James	100
Part II. How justice gets done in international economic institutions
5 The Conventional Morality of Trade Chin Leng Lim	129
6 The Political Geography of Distributive Justice Jeffrey L. Dunoff	153
7 The Death of Doha? Forensics of Democratic Governance, Distributive Justice, and Development in the WTO Chantal Thomas	185
Part III. Critical responses to contemporary theorizing about justice and international economic institutions
8 Global Justice and Trade Fernando R. Tesón and Jonathan Klick	217
9 Jam Tomorrow: A Critique of International Economic Law Barbara Stark	261
10 Doing Justice: The Economics and Politics of International Distributive Justice Joel P. Trachtman	273
Conclusion: An Agenda for Research and Action Chios Carmody, Frank J. Garcia, and John Linarelli	287
Index	297